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...Sidney Hook, a founder and first president of U.C.R.A., the chief threat to liberal education has been the galloping movement for the abolition of curriculum requirements. A former philosophy professor at New York University, Hook proposes a program of required undergraduate studies that would include such predictable basics as communications skills, some knowledge of scientific method, historical forces and literature. But he also wants students to learn how to judge what they see and hear...
...York conference there was widespread support for Hook's contention that universities have an obligation to set priorities for their students. Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb of Brooklyn College deplored a "nihilistic tendency" to argue that "all ideas are equal." Harvard Social Scientist Nathan Glazer complained that the problem in his field is that priorities are always shifting. But even in this most inconstant area of liberal education, Glazer argues, it is possible to determine essentials if scholars will only...
...years, engineers have tried to overcome the insensitivity of the artificial arm with a variety of devices that produce electric shocks or emit auditory signals when pressure is put on the hooks. Dr. Frank Clippinger Jr., an orthopedist at Duke University Medical Center, tried a different approach. He coupled a strain gauge into the cable that operates the hook end of an artificial arm and wired it to a surgically implanted electrical stimulator. The stimulator, in turn, was connected directly to the medial or main arm nerve; the current is perceived as a mild tingling, which by its intensity tells...
...half or two hours." The Socialist Worker turned pale. "What about you?" he said finally, turning to the unaffiliated rad, who I guess he hoped would either top the guy from PL or suggest that he was a liar, in either case letting the questioner off the hook...
...Arab world was delighted last week when the U.N. Security Council condemned Israel for the skyjacking of a chartered Iraqi airliner. But mixed with that pleasure was a fear that somehow Palestinian commandos would let Israel off the hook by staging another bloody spectacular, just as they did after Israeli jets shot down a Libyan airliner last March at a cost of 108 lives...